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(pl. noun) - (1) Freckles on the skin resembling the seeds of the fern, freckled with fern, quite like small ticks . . . Ferns are frequently the receptacle of ticks, of which tickles may be considered a diminutive.
--William Carr's Dialect of Craven, 1828
(2) These are popularly accounted for as the marks made by the spurting of milk from the mother's breast, inevitably occasioned, so that a face may be marred that is "over bonny."
--C. Clough Robinson's Glossary of Mid-Yorkshire, 1876
January 16, 2018